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Oberon
12+ albums
neofolkpsytrancedarkwavefolkGothic Rock
about
There is more than one artist with this name: 1) Oberon was an early 1970s progressive / psychedelic / folk rock band Oxfordshire, UK. They recorded a rare privately pressed album titled "A Midsummer Night's Dream" in 1971. Only 150 copies were pressed making it one of the most obscure folk albums of the era. Acorn was a very small local label who also issued the first album by The Yetties. After a reissue in 2005 their album became quite popular between folk rock fans. 2) Oberon is a Norwegian project started in 1994 in Hafrsfjord, Norway by Bard Titlestad. During the years he released melancholic and atmospheric music influenced by gothic rock, darkwave and neofolk. Oberon was founded in 1994 as an outlet for the creative vision of Norwegian artist/songwriter Bard Oberon. September that year saw the release of the demo "Through Time and Space", which received glowing reviews from the international underground scene. The demo led to a deal with the Argentina-based label, Regress Records. A self-titled CD was released in 1996. As with his previous release, “Oberon” was met with a very positive response from fans and underground media alike. Organ Magazine (UK) called the album “Progressive dark otherworldness - orchestral, romantic, extremely powerful, painful, dark, lost and recommended”. Soon it reached the ears of Prophecy Productions who offered to reissue it for the European market. In 1998 Bard released his second CD, Mysteries (named after a novel by one of Norway's
